Whip.



PATENTBD PEB. 21, 1905.

P. E. COWLBS.

WHIP. APPLIOATON FILED NOV. 12,1903.

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UNrTED STATES Patented February 21, 1905.

FRANK E. COWLES, OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

WHIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,400, dated February 21, 1905. Application filed November 12,1903. Serial No. 180,865.

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Be it known that I, FRANK E. CowLEs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Westfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Whips, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to Whips, and to that class thereof having a-stock consisting of the usual flexible sidings of ratan or similar material and a center or core of rawhide or other like tough and springy material, which center low the lower extremity thereof, and means for so securing the parts of said plaited covering which extend beyond the part of said load-piece at the junctionthereof with its reducedrlower extremity that the ornamental appearance of the whip is improved. I attain this object by means of the Whip construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is alongitudinal sectional view of the whip-load, showing the lower portion of the whip-stock therein, the lower end of the core extending through a perforation in the lower end of the load. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the Whip-load separate from the whip. Fig. 3 is a lower end view of the parts shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is aside view of the lower portion of the complete plaited whip-stock, showing the bottom cap in cross-section in place on the reduced lower end of the load-piece, the lower end of the whip-center projecting through said cap, and the latter shown as inclosing the extremities of the cover-threads and holding the same tightly in that position.

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Similar letters refer to like parts in the several iigu res of the drawings.

The load-piece (t shown in Fig. 2 apart from the whip-stock D in longitudinal section has, as there shown, a tapering form exteriorly, whereby its outer surface is adapted to coin cide substantially with the general taper of the completed whip. (Shown in Fig. 4.) The lower end of said load-piece terminates in the part I) thereof, of a diameter less than that of the part directly above it, thereby forminga Said part may, if preferred, be screw-threaded to receive an ornamental cap c, adapted to be screwed thereon, or said part may be left plain, as shown, and the cap may have a smooth interior surface and be so fitted as to slide so closely onto said extremity that it will serve the purpose below set forth and keep its place on the butt, as is usual with similar parts of a whip.

Heretofore it has been the practice' to so stock a Whip that no parts of it contained within the sidings thereof were visible excepting at the extreme upper end or tip of the stock, and therefore to provide visible means for determining thestructure of the interior of the whip at the butt thereof the lower end of said load-.piece has the central perforation d, through which the lower end of the Whip-core E extends, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4.

The aforesaid tapering form is given to the load-piece t as aforesaid more especially to provide an outer surface for the stock between its extremities in such a continuous plane as is desirable for receiving the plaited covering thereof, as shown in Fig. 4. Said covering, as shown, extends over said load-piece, the end f of the threads constituting the same being extended slightly over the surface of said part b, as aforesaid, and there secured by said cap c, as above described, the latter having a central perforation through which the lower extremity of said core E may extend, as shown in Fig. 4.

It is obvious that a serviceable whip may be made embodying simply the structural elements shown in Fig. 1, and the cap c, if desired, protecting the exterior surface of the whip by any suitable varnish and extending IOO lcated passage through which a part of the whip may extend, and having the outer diameter of the lower extremity thereof so reduced for a certain distance upward as to form a shoulder o thereon.

2. A tubular metallic load-piece for Whips having abottom in which is a centrally-located passage through which a part oi' the whip may extend, and having the outer diameter of the lower extremity thereof so reduced for a Certain distance upward as to form a shoulder 0 thereon, and a braid-holding cap fitting said extremity and adapted to abut said shoulder.

3. A whip comprising a stockD and a central core E of tough flexible material, one extremity of which extends beyond the butt of said stock, and a tubular metallic load-piece receiving' said butt and having a bottom in which is a passage through which said core extremity extends in full View, a braided covering on said stock and load-piece, one end extending beyond the shoulder 0 of said loadpiece and the capf engaging the lower extremity of said covering and holding the same against displacement.

FRANK E. COVLES.

Witnesses:

K. I. CLnMoNs, H. A. CHAPIN. 

